Red RC » R On Road

April 10, 2018

Toni Gruber wins at Ielasi Tuned Trophy

Last weekend’s Ielasi Tuned Trophy, organised by former World Champion Daniele Ielasi, saw not only the running of an 1/8th IC Track class but also 1/10th 200mm racing. In the Touring class was WRC Racing’s Toni Gruber who came out on top. Toni would loose a bit of time in the opening stages of the 45-minute main final as he opted for a no-tyre-change strategy with the bigger rubber causing some issues, but once the tyres came in he was able to take over the lead and bring home the win some two laps in front of Mugen’s Dirk Wischnewski as Matteo Passetti (Serpent) completed the top 3 podium result.

Image: Toni Gruber

April 10, 2018

Mirko Salemi takes Ielasi Tuned Trophy 1/8th win

The Ielasi Tuned Trophy was held this past weekend at the Melzo track in Italy with 60 racers in attendance. The 1/8th IC track class saw Infinity’s Francesco Tironi taking the overall TQ and he would also lead most of the A-main, however with ten minutes to got a small mistake took meant he would loose the lead, allowing WRC’s Mirko Salemi to take the win from Francesco in 2nd as Massimo Aliprandi (Serpent) came in 3rd to complete the podium result.

Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]

April 9, 2018

HPI-Challenge Carpet Masters – Report

This past weekend the HPI-Challenge Carpet Masters were held at the Arena33 in Andernach, Germany with 135 racers attending in the five classes of 13.5T Touring, 17.5T Touring, LMP, Classic and Rookie. In 13.5T Touring it was the Awesomatix trio of Max Mächler, Ingo Herschbach and Marcel Geiger who made up the top 3 after the A-mains with Henrik Heitsch (ARC) and Özer Yürüm (Awesomatix) completing the top 5.

Continue reading the report here

April 9, 2018

Hagberg & Payne take EFRA 1/12th titles

The 2018 EFRA 1/12th scale European Championships were held at the Racing Arena Limburg this past weekend. With nearly 150 entries the event was very well attended, making for competitive racing in both the Modified and Stock classes and ultimately it was Alexander Hagberg with the overall TQ from Olly Jefferies in the Modified class as Ollie Payne snatched the TQ in the Stock category from Michal Orlowski. In Modified Alexander Hagberg broke away at the start of the first leg, with Olly Jefferies running around a second behind him initially. This continued for six minutes, till Alex clipped a bot dot in the race control chicane, sending him into the barriers and an eventual retirement. This allowed Olly through to take the leg win, with Ollie Payne and Michel Orlowski continuing their battle from the stock class behind him. Ollie prevailed to take second with Michel third.

Continue reading the report here

April 9, 2018

Cristiano Sartor wins CRNS Rd1

The opening round of the Italian CRNS was held at the Fiorano track. In the 1/8th track class it was ARC driver Cristiano Sartor with the win from Capricorn’s Alessandro Merloni 2nd and Xray driver Alessandro Bracci 3rd. Sandro Sammarini and Fabrizio Iori would round out the top 5 results.

View the final results here

April 9, 2018

2018 BRCA Clubman Championship Rd1 – Report

The first round of the 2018 BRCA Clubman Championship took place at West London on this past Sunday. After the previous days dry practice session drivers were greeted by a wet track for race day so the Shimizu rain tyres were the order of the day for the TC classes instead of the new Sweep control tyre TC has this year. A new grooved Sweep rain tyre for the Formula cars was introduced this year which proved to be a great improvement on the previous year’s slicks in the wet. With one round of practice completed for people to test how waterproofed or not their cars were and to acclimatise to the conditions round by round qualifying got under way. The 13.5 Open class was a challenge in the very wet conditions all day long with quite a few drivers turning the boost and turbos off and running in Blinky mode for the day to try and increase the traction. Aaron Rose took the top honours in round 1 from Andrew Robson and Daniel Moorey. Round 2 and it was Andrew Robson at the top from Aaron and third was Chris Lovley. Round 3 and it was Dominic Carters turn at the top followed by that busy man running 2 classes Damian Giddins and Stuart Rand finally finding some pace to finish third. The last round and Aaron made it two wins from four to take a fine TQ. A 2nd for Dominic and a 3rd for Andrew left us with the top ten looking like this:

Continue reading the report here

April 9, 2018

BRCA 1/8th Circuit Championships Rd1 – Report

The first round of the BRCA 1/8th circuit championships was held at the Cotswolds track. Saturday’s practice started at around 10am when a couple of racers started braving out the track, clearing puddles. Lap times were not great because of the conditions but people were actually happy to be able to be on the track and everyone veered into the afternoon without much drama. The track was now dry and cars looked faster and faster. The big unknown was how cars would react with additive on the tyres and there were mixed opinions, with some deciding not to use any. Did it make a difference? Some say it did, some say there is no point. The usual culprits seemed to be leading the way, Mark Green, Andy Hastings, Neal King, Tim Wood to name but a few. David Spashett, last year’s runner up, was absent but Alex Thurston was back in nitro after two very successful years in 8th electric. It would be rather interesting to see on the Sunday how people would actually get on with their new cars in race conditions. After the sound of blistering lap times – for the conditions – the day was over and it was time to try and warm up for most racers. The afternoon had been dry but the wind chill created quite a cold feeling.

Continue reading the report here

April 9, 2018

2017/18 VRS-Micro Touring Series – Report

The 2017/18 VRS-Micro Touring Series was held from October to April at the Vestfold RC Center in south east Norway in 1/28th scale Modified and Stock classes. The series is run on ETS-style carpet using RC Atomic and GL-Racing cars with a total of 25 racers attending in the free-kV Modified and 3500kV Stock categories. Going into the final round five drivers were battling for the overall championship with 12-years young Team Atomic Norway driver Olav Dahle being the fastest driver through the season, taking a total of four wins in the series. And with a win in the final race he would also seal the overall championship from Torbjørn Jørgensen (Atomic) and Atomic driver Tommy Lønn.

Continue reading here